Pharmacy

The Pharmacy Department of Hohhot First Hospital currently has 75 staff, including 65 pharmacists, 9 nurses, and 1 accountant, including 20 masters, 43 undergraduates, 12 associates, 6 chief pharmacists, 11 deputy chief pharmacists, 21 chief pharmacists, 20 junior pharmacists, 4 chief nurses, and 3 junior nurses. The Pharmacy Department is a comprehensive technical service department responsible for hospital-wide pharmaceutical management, selection and evaluation of new drugs, supply and dispensing of Chinese and Western drugs, quality control, rational drug use management, clinical pharmacy services, and centralized dispensing of intravenous drugs. The Pharmacy Department continuously explores the development model of hospital pharmacy under the new situation, extends the connotation of pharmaceutical services, and adheres to the concept of "patient satisfaction, clinical recognition, department development, unity and progress" to provide comprehensive pharmaceutical services. The Pharmacy Department consists of drug warehouse, outpatient Western pharmacy, Chinese pharmacy, Mongolian pharmacy, emergency pharmacy, inpatient pharmacy, clinical pharmacy room, intravenous drug dispensing center and other departments. The Drug Supply and Dispensing Drug Library is responsible for the procurement, storage and supply of drugs throughout the hospital, strictly implements the resolutions of the Pharmacy Management and Therapeutics Committee, strictly and standardizes the procurement process, and rationalizes the management of inventory drugs.Each outpatient pharmacy is responsible for dispensing medicines for an average of more than 1,000 people per day, and constantly optimizes pharmaceutical service content, expanding the connotation of pharmaceutical services through warm pharmaceutical reminders and patient medication explanations. The inpatient pharmacy is responsible for drug dispensing and medication guidance for more than 1,500 beds in more than 40 wards of the hospital. Oral drugs use a fully automatic single-dose drug dispensing machine, which makes the dispensing of oral drugs for inpatients more intelligent and standardized, facilitates and ensures the safety of inpatient medication, and gradually realizes the transformation of the "patient-centered" pharmaceutical service model. The Department of Clinical Pharmacy has set up full-time clinical pharmacists since 2008, responsible for the management of antimicrobial drugs and rational drug use in the hospital. There are currently 7 clinical pharmacists who participate in clinical rounds in the Department of Respiratory Medicine, Endocrinology, Oncology, Neurology, Cardiovascular Medicine, Geriatrics, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Neurology, as well as consultations on complex cases in the hospital. They discuss cases with medical staff, conduct academic exchanges, use their professional knowledge to participate in the formulation of individualized medication plans, and use rational medication software and clinical pharmacy management software to provide scientific and reasonable medication basis and medication information for clinical use.The hospital's comprehensive services include a pharmacy clinic, which provides pharmaceutical consultation and drug treatment management directly to patients, and solves medication confusion for patients. Intravenous Drug Dispensing Center The Intravenous Drug Dispensing Center (PIVAS) was officially put into operation in July 2015, with a construction area of ​​710 square meters. The overall layout is divided into three parts: clean area, auxiliary work area, and living area. PIVAS is equipped with 7 Class 100 biological safety cabinets and 10 Class 100 laminar flow clean benches, which can prepare cytotoxic drugs, antibiotics, total intravenous nutrition and general drugs, and provide drug dispensing services for all wards of the hospital. Currently, the average daily dispensing is about 1,200 bags of intravenous drugs, and the annual dispensing is more than 400,000 bags. The establishment of PIVAS has optimized the hospital's management structure, improved work efficiency, effectively reduced the workload of clinical nurses, and achieved an optimized combination of limited human resources. It is a new highlight of pharmaceutical work. The Pharmacy Department adheres to the principle of patient-centered development of comprehensive pharmaceutical services, gradually improves service quality, and ensures clinical medication safety.